Beverly Pepper papers, 1969-1981

Collection Summary: Twenty slides of Pepper's work; a biographical sketch and bibliography; exhibition catalogs; a manuscript of a speech by Pepper, "Public Sculpture and its Public"; and a photograph of Pepper explaining work to be done on one of her sculptures at the John Deere Foundry, East Moline, Ill.

Biographical/Historical Note: Sculptor, painter; Brooklyn, N.Y. and Torre Gentile di Todi, Italy. Birth date cited as both 1922 and 1924. Studied with Leger and L'Hote. Noted for her site sculpture.

Donated by Beverly Pepper, 1979 and 1982.

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